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wear out completely
I'm beat
He was all washed up after the exam
This kind of work exhausts me -
be carried somewhere by water or as if by water
The body washed up on the beach -
wash one's face and hands
She freshened up in the bathroom -
wash dishes
I cook and my husband washes up after dinner -
carry somewhere (of water or current or waves)
The tide washed up the corpse
How To Use wash up In A Sentence
- "Mermaids' tears" are small plastic pellets of waste (also known as nurdles) that wash up on beaches and look like plastic fish eggs.
- Make sure you wash up well.
- He headed to the bathroom to wash up.
- More oil is expected to wash up on beaches in the next few days as weather worsens. Times, Sunday Times
- Like the fact that any news story making a splash causes ripples that, no matter how tenuous the medical connection, inevitably wash up in my surgery. Times, Sunday Times
- When the animal dies, the shells often wash up on beaches and are hard to distinguish from the bubbles produced by waves splashing on the shore, hence the name ‘bubble shells.’
- Make sure you wash up well.
- Make sure you wash up well.
- Then wash up, change your clothes, and come greet your future in-laws.
- It said some raw sewage may wash up on beaches in the Firth of Forth. The Sun